Word: stunt
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...buried in Indianapolis. She was riding with Sergeant Ralph A. Gordon, Indiana National Guard, when his plane went into a tail spin, crashed. Her death was the third tragedy among women in two weeks: Mildred Doran, Dole Flight passenger, disappeared in the Pacific; at Youngstown, Ohio, Gladys Roy, girl stunt flyer, stepped into her whirling propeller...
...youth in Rochester, Paul Redfern studied music, dreaming of one day becoming a great figure in the world of opera & orchestra. At the threshold of his career he failed to obtain an expected orchestra engagement and turned from flutes to flying ships. After a curious itinerant career as a stunt flyer; advertising flyer; flying scout for the Prohibition service; small airport proprietor; he sought backing for a New York-to-Paris flight this year. He failed. Soon he appeared in Brunswick, Ga. To the merchants of that town he put his proposition. He would fly a plane alone...
...Aloha had trouble. Three times she went into dangerous tail spins and three times pilot Jensen, stunt flyer, pulled her out. Once, flying low because only close to the sea would their compass work, they bumped a wave; and rose above it. Once the gas pump went wrong. Having no radio for bearings, three hours were wasted shooting the sun. With gas left for a half hour's flying they landed after 28 hours and 5 minutes; nearly two hours behind Goebel. Of the Miss Doran and the Golden Eagle no news. They were last sighted passing the Farallon...
Parachute. Miss Myrtle Jarbo plunged from a stunt plane at Toledo, Ohio, secured to a parachute. As she floated earthward, her parents (long divorced) rushed across the flying field to greet her, plunged unexpectedly into each other's arms. Came love. Three days later they remarried...
...court, Mr. Nutt promised to pay back the pennies taken from citizens by the "extra" gutter beagles. Press Agent Hefley explained: "The stunt would not have gone over if the boys had given the papers away as circulars...